Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

- Martin, Steve

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus